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165 Descend quotes by 151 unique authors

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we… — Rene Daumal
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. — Elizabeth I
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of… — Vaclav Havel
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible… — Vaclav Havel
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. — William Hazlitt
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend,… — Barbara Kingsolver
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to… — Pliny the Elder
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? — Walt Whitman
Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from… — Frans de Waal
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. — Neil Gaiman
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even… — Khalil Gibran
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser… — Francis Spufford
There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing… — Marcel Proust
I will not descend among professors and capitalists. — Walt Whitman
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,… — W. Somerset Maugham
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart… — Gabriela Mistral
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. — Dante Alighieri
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity,… — Abraham Verghese
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol,… — Suzanne Collins
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling… — Sylvia Plath
You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to… — Pablo Neruda

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